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== Circumcision Injury Reports ==
As far back as August 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public health notice about the [[Mogen]] and [[Gomco]] clamps after receiving about 20 injury reports a year since 1996, including lacerations, hemorrhaging, penile amputation and urethral damage.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Hennessy-Fiske | first=Molly | coauthors= | url=http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-circumcision-20110926,0,4367816.story | title=Injuries linked to circumcision clamps | date=2011-09-26 | publisher=Los Angeles Times | quote=As far back as August 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public health notice... | accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref> Instead of recalling the devices, the FDA advised users to make sure they were using the devices according to the manufacturer's specifications.<ref>{{REFnews | last=Hennessy-Fiske | first=Molly | coauthors= | url=http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-circumcision-20110926,0,4367816.story | title=Injuries linked to circumcision clamps | date=2011-09-25 | publisher=Los Angeles Times | quote=Instead of recalling the devices, the FDA advised users to make sure... | accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref> The agency also cautioned against using replacement parts on the Gomco clamp, which led it to malfunction.<ref>{{REFnews | last=Hennessy-Fiske | first=Molly | coauthors= | url=http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-circumcision-20110926,0,4367816.story | title=Injuries linked to circumcision clamps | date=2011-09-25 | publisher=Los Angeles Times | quote=The agency also cautioned against using replacement parts on the Gomco clamp... | accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref> In the 11 years following the FDA warnings, the agency has received 139 additional reports of problems related to circumcision clamps, including 51 injuries.<ref>{{REFnews | last=Hennessy-Fiske | first=Molly | coauthors= | url=http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-circumcision-20110926,0,4367816.story | title=Injuries linked to circumcision clamps | date=2011-09-26 | publisher=Los Angeles Times | quote=In the 11 years following the FDA warnings, the agency has received 139 additional reports... | accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref> Twenty-one of those reports were related to [[Mogen]] clamps, all but one of which involved injuries.<ref>{{REFnews | last=Hennessy-Fiske | first=Molly | coauthors= | url=http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-circumcision-20110926,0,4367816.story | title=Injuries linked to circumcision clamps | date=2011-09-26 | publisher=Los Angeles Times | quote=Twenty-one of those reports were related to Mogen clamps... | accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref>
== Products & Devices ==
On the 13 December 2011, the OIG published a report critical of the FDA's failure to oversee States inspection of food facilities.<ref>{{REFweb
| last= | first= | date=December 2011 | title=Vulnerabilities in FDA's Oversight of State Food Facility Inspections Report (OEI-02-09-00430) | url=http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-02-09-00430.pdf | publisher= | accessdate=2011-12-16
}}</ref> The report read in part: